Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous